Bug #14255 Updated: setcookie bug (Cookie is destroyed/Inaccessible)

From: Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:56:00 +0000
Subject: Bug #14255 Updated: setcookie bug (Cookie is destroyed/Inaccessible)
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ID: 14255
Updated by: hholzgra
Reported By: kris.wilkinson@titancs.com
Status: Open
Bug Type: HTTP related
Operating System: Debian 2.2.19
PHP Version: 4.0.6
New Comment:

setcookie ("myCookie","Blah","time()+7201"); 
                             ^           ^

do you realy have quotes here?

  -> "time()+7201" as a string would evaluate 
     as zero, so deleting the ccokie instead
     of setting it




Previous Comments:
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[2001-11-27 12:43:15] kris.wilkinson@titancs.com

The problem is simple, in the older versions of php, you could set a cookie and have it available
for your specified amount of time from any browser window open.

The line was as follows : 

setcookie ("myCookie","Blah","time()+7201"); 

The cookie should be set for just over 2 hours.

In 4.0.6, If you set the cookie, the time you set is never actually used, and the cookie is
destroyed immediately after you close the browser window. 

Another downside, you cannot access this cookie from another window even if the original window is
open. this sounds like an exclusive window session is linked to that cookie, and once the uplink is
dropped, so is the cookie.

To access the cookie, i've been using :

$mycookie = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[myCookie];

it will show up in the original window, but not in others.

at all!

what's up?! :)


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